Category: Travels

  • Lazing on a sunny afternoon…NOT!

    Saturday, 6th April 2013 After the mid-week expense and long drive to Windsor today we took a more relaxed view of what we wanted to do. It was already starting to be a great weekend as the weather was sunny and the kids wanted to go to the beach. To save daddy a drive in…

  • La La Legoland

    Wednesday and Thursday, 3rd-4th July 2013 This week we went to LegoLand, Windsor, as part of Ben’s Birthday Celebrations. I risk the ire of my friends who live in the south as I write this who would have loved to see us but the schedule was way to fierce for me to contemplate any other…

  • Muncaster Fair

    Saturday, 25th May 2013 Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass Each year Muncatser Castle holds its fair over the Spring Bank Holiday. The culmination of events ends with the choosing of the fool, a piece of tradition that has eeked out the centuries in thsi lovely part of Cumbria. We decided to go along to see the wonderful…

  • Whalley and Spring Wood

    Sunday, 16th June 2013 Today we visited the town of Whalley which is situated just below Clitheroe in South-East Lancashire. Whalley is a lovely gen of a market town with a yearly food and craft fair. We went to check out the fair which was small but had great stalls (we bought home baked pies…

  • Seaside Frolics

    Friday, 21st June 2013 One of the advantages to having a car now is that when Markie picks up Leigh, Ben and Elliott from nursery on a Friday, and the weather is good, he can take the magical mystery back route to Morecambe. This is a pretty clear run (about twenty minutes) to the seaside.…

  • L-L-Let’s Go, L-L-LEGO

    And the new SeaLife Centre Saturday, 22 June 2013 This weekend we, Mark and Leigh, decided that they would ween Ben from his dummy to see if it was possible. To do this we simply started talking to him about the fact that he was going to be 3 years old ina week and that…

  • Paris 2013

    15-22nd May 2013 For Nana Keating’s 70th Birthday we took her and Auntie Kathryn (who was soon to be 50) to Paris for a holiday with the kids. They enjoyed it so much that they demanded a re-visit so this year we returned with the intention of staying a few more days and seeing more…

  • Oh I Do Like…

    7 June 2013 Mark flew back from America this morning and so this evening when he picked up the family he decided that he would drive them to the seaside st Morecambe for s walk in the sand and a fish supper.  While there we saw some sabd sculptures being done for charity and Ben…

  • Will it fit in a bag?

    We went to Muncaster Castle and Leigh wanted to know if it would fit in a bag to take home. This specific post was created using WordPress for Android on a mobile phone. This explains but not excuses any incorrect or unusual typography, brevity or formatting.

  • Sleeping on the Bus

    We have a sleeping child each on the bus in Paris This specific post was created using WordPress for Android on a mobile phone. This explains but not excuses any incorrect or unusual typography, brevity or formatting.